Erosion Threatens Nanka Community , As Igwe Appeals To FG

                                         

The traditional ruler of Nnanka, Anambra state, Igwe Gilbert Ofomata has sent out a save-our-soul message to the federal government to intervene in the erosion menace ravaging his community as the rains sets in again for the year.

Ofomata said that though there has been an ongoing effort by the federal government to salvage the community through the awarding of the Nanka erosion site to Rhinos Maritime Construction in 2010, job at the site has been stalled as a result of refusal to give directive for the company to return to site.

He informed that he has concluded arrangements with his council chiefs have to write to the federal government through the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim for the President’s intervention.

 Several buildings are at risk of being washed away by erosion in Nanka and environs even the building of former Vice President Dr Alex Ekwueme and his Traditional ruler brother Igwe Laz Ekwueme are on the line of the erosion.

Another indigene of the community, Mr Nwachukwu Uchendu said, “The Company was doing a good work here as you can see. They constructed a very good road with standard drainage system and commenced work in the gully before the job was stalled.

“As you can see they are still at the site, but from what we gathered they are only waiting for a directive from the federal government to continue work, but the whole thing seemed to have been politicized. We don’t know what is happening any more, but we hear that some powerful interests are bent on stopping the job. As this continues, rainy season is fast approaching and our people live in fear everyday.”

In a chat at the site with an official of the company who pleaded anonymity, he said that the company recently received an invitation from the SGF and after a three day meeting was ordered back to site, but ‘powerful interests’ whose motives are not defined stopped the company from continuing work.

Information available indicated that the contractor has done 2.2km of road and 2.2km standard drainage but the drainage at Oko community axis collapsed which company is claiming were not party of their job as it even destroyed their work.